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Revision as of 07:08, 20 April 2011
This page contains links to the many posts that we have about Mono. We also have a separate page about Mono Applications and Moonlight.
November 2006
December 2006
January 2007
- Novell’s Global Effect on Perception of Software Patents
- Novell Employee Backs Microsoft in OOXML Clash with Europe
March 2007
- Does Novell Spread Its Mono Along with FUD?
- Novell to Boost .NET (Miguel de Icaza Talks About the Partnership)
April 2007
- Mono and Patents, Putting a Price Tag on Linux
- Concerns About Mono Raise Suspicion About a Hidden Plan
- Novell Brings .NET to Teenagers
- Novell Puts Its Cards on a .NET Linux
- Novell Fights Red Hat, Fights for Mono While Microsoft Fights Free Software
- Novell Enters the Infamous Software Patents Maze
May 2007
- Microsoft’s Silverlight for GNU/Linux? Only If You Accept Mono. (Updated)
- Interoperability Based on Tax (Novell) versus Open APIs (Free Software)?
July 2007
- Novell Sets Focus on .NET
- Novell Supports .NET and MS OOXML, the BBC Supports .NET and MS DRM
- Patent Alert: Is GNOME Growing a .NET Dependency?
August 2007
- Is Novell Building Microsoft Linux©? (Signs That Your Mono Ain’t So Safe)
- Enough is Enough. Novell is Becoming a Risk to Free/Libre Software.
September 2007
- Studying Novell’s Plans and Direction with Mono
- Miguel de Icaza Talks About Novell, Mono, and Patents
- Novell’s Trust in Oxymorons
- Matt Asay Agrees — Novell is a Slave to Microsoft, Carrier of the Moonlight ‘Infection’
- The Kernel You Crave, But the Licence Won’t Let You Have
- Novell Attempts to Defend Moonlight, But Sinks Deeper in the Mud
- Novell’s Linux Deal: Exclusive, Controlled by Microsoft, Awakens Patent Monster
- Novell’s Identity Crisis Makes Linux an Expensive Second-class Windows
October 2007
- Novell Selfishly Uses Mono as ‘Protection’-based Advantage
- Novell’s Windowsization of GNU/Linux
- Microsoft Unleashes the Death Trap to Mono (Updated)
- Mono: the Warning is Here, the Timebomb is Near
- Does This New Poll Demonstrate Hostility Towards Monovellisation of Linux?
- Hey, .NET! Leave That Phone Alone.
- The Mono and Moonlight Roadblock
- Anti-symbiosis: ODF, OOXML, Mono, GNOME, and OpenOffice.org
- Breaking Down ‘Patent Fronts’ Against Linux
- Quote of the Day: The Naked Emperor
- Is Mono a Reimplementation of Java, by Association?
November 2007
- Quick Mention: Recent News on Patents and IP
- GNOME-Mono Dependency Revisited
- Clarifications About GNOME
- Quick Mention: Novell Talent Loss — Joe Shaw Departs
- What Lies Beneath (Another Mono Alert)
- The GNU/Linux Pen O’ Sheep ("By throwing all eggs in the single basket which is Novell (e.g. Mono, ‘interoperability’, and Moonlight), Microsoft is hoping to assemble all Linux users (currently spread across 500+ Linux distributions) in a single ‘box’ and then eliminate them.")
- Attempts to ‘Infect’ Google’s Android with Microsoft IP Tax?
- Europe Takes a Look at Microsoft’s .NET (/Mono) Web Hijack Attempts
- Love GNOME, Beware of Mono
- Criticise Mono for Patents, Get Attacked
- Necessary Cloning versus Unnecessary Cloning
- GNOME and Novell: The FUD Never Existed
- IBM’s Standards Vice President Asks About Mono-free Linux
- A Quick Look at Mono Licensing and Microsoft Licensing
- A Reader’s Take on the Dangers of Software Patents and Microsoft’s Role
- GNOME Foundation, Please Stop Attacking the Messenger and Please Listen
- Jamie from the GNOME Foundation Gets It
December 2007
- Pick Your (Patent) Poison
- Quote of the Day: Richard Stallman on the GNOME Desktop
- Mono and OOXML Unwanted in the Free Desktop
- The Story of a Novell Marionette ("It’s not a coincidence, but Ximian may represent a point in time when Novell began looking at another programming universe — one that it barely controls.")
- The Mono Trap and the Open/Closed Promises
January 2008
- Microsoft’s Latest: Want Olympics on Linux? Get Mono (and Pay ‘Patent Tax’)
- Quick Mention: Windows ISV Tries to ‘Shove’ .NET into Mobile Linux Consortium
- Quick Mention: No Mono for IBM’s Standards Vice President
- On Beagle’s Increasing Mono-ization and Novell’s Role
- Quote of the Day: On Mono, Novell and Microsoft
- Novell’s Mono Seen as Controversial
- Quote of the Day: Slashdot Users on Novell’s Mono in GNOME
- Wake Up Already, GNOME, Please Wake Up
February 2008
- Novell: The .NET Company
- Closer Than You Think: Microsoft and Novell Collaborations
- What Does Samsung’s Linux Deal Mean to Android and Mono?
- How GNU/Linux Gets Contaminated with Software Patents from the Back Door
- OpenSUSE Rants, KDE Mono Bindings
- Silverlight and Mono = DRM and Software Patents
- Mark Shuttleworth’s Stance on Mono Inside Ubuntu
- The Overlooked Issue of Development with .NET in GNU/Linux
- Novell’s Mono in Fedora 8
- Quick Mention: Novell+Mono Discussion
- Quick Mention: Novell’s Mono Evolves and Approaches Evolution
- Novell-Microsoft Assimilation, Phase II
March 2008
- Novell Loves .NET, Copyrights Code
- Will Nokia’s Linux-based Internet Tablets Soon Be Infected by Mono, XAML? What About Qt?
- Quick Mention: Miguel’s Eureka Moment
- Is Mono Now Officially a Software Patent Trap?
- Miguel Asked for an Explanation, Full Disclosure About Novell/Microsoft Deal
- A Letter from a Reader, About Miguel de Icaza
- The Microsoft-Novell Employee Swap, Intersection
- Novell Releases the Code Factory Which Threatens Free Software
- Member of the GNOME Foundation on Tomboy, Mono, GNOME
- Novell’s Mono and Microsoft’s Plot to Use Mono/.NET to ‘Punish’ GNU/Linux
- Is Novell’s Strategy .NET Software on Top of GNU/Linux?
- MonoDevelop in the Press, Which Totally Misses the Point
- Summary of Mono’s Danger to GNU/Linux and the Free Desktop
- Quote of the Day: On Google Sponsorship of Microsoft’s .NET
April 2008
- Why Again is the Novell/Microsoft Deal So Darn Ugly?
- SpeC#ulation: Tipping Point for GNOME?
- Mono-free GNOME: “Roughly the Same Functionality”
- Novell and GNOME Help Microsoft and .NET’s Fight Against Sun and Java
- Novell+Ximian=SLED.NET, Sun+Java=SuSE GNU/Linux/Solaris
May 2008
- A Former Ximian Employee Finds Greener Pastures (Red Hat)
- Why Novell Became a Threat to Java and the GNU GPL
- Mono “..and still nothing on whether WinForms is legally safe to use.”
- Quick Mention: “Make Your Distro Free of Miguel de Icaza’s Junk Code”
- Mono Developers: From .NET Boosting to Java Bashing?
- Op-Ed: Novell Pollutes Free Software (and GNU/Linux) in Preparation for Microsoft Attacks
- Pondering Novell Mono and DRM
- OOXML and Mono: Not So Different After All
- Reader’s Article: Novell, Mono and RAND
- Novell and Mono: The Kiss of Death to Free Software
June 2008
- Novell’s Bold Mission to Clean Up ‘Unlicensed’ GNU/Linux ("In other words — and also to sum this up in a way — Novell received Microsoft’s endorsement and money in exchange for the crown in the datacentre, higher priority to OOXML as a document format, and .NET as the API of choice. Why again do some people still support Novell?")
- Software Patent Deals, Mono, and Other Legal Timebombs
- Reader’s Thoughts on Mark Shuttleworth’s Response (Regarding Microsoft Codecs)
- Novell Brings Mono and OpenOffice.org Even Closer
- Why Is Mono in Fedora? Nobody Knows… It’s Possibly a Secret
July 2008
August 2008
- Novuel’s de Icaza: The Man Who Gives GNU/Linux to Microsoft
- Even Microsoft Uses Free Software, So Why Does Novell Harness Microsoft?
- Of Microsoft’s Plans for GNU/Linux and Tinfoil Hats
- Novell’s Mono in Microsoft’s Clouds
- Another Reason to Avoid Mono: Security
- Groklaw: Microsoft and Novell Poison OpenOffice.org; Watch Out, KDE
- Mono Spreads, Fails
- Novell May Promote Silverlight Because It Spreads Mono
- While Everyone is Sleeping, Mono Sneaks Into KDE
- No Mono in Fedora 10 (“Cambridge”) Live CD
- Miguel de Icaza on ‘Superb’ Microsoft Lock-ins
- Mono: ECMA Does Not Make It Safe
- Mono ‘Guard’ Found in Ubuntu Forums
- Who is Promoting Mono Anyway?
- Novell’s Hack Week: Mono, Ports to Windows, Mac OS X
- Quick Mention: Miguel de Icaza Loves .NET, Dislikes GNU GPL
- He Who Imitates Microsoft Will Suffer from Its Flaw
- Novell, the Microsoft Windows Company
- Interlude: What Mono Could be All About
September 2008
- At Novell, Software Development is Microsoft Cloning (MicroFOSS)
- Reader’s Take on Microsoft, Novell, and Miguel de Icaza
- ECMA and Mono: It’s Complicated
- Microsoft Admitted Mono is a Patent Trap Back in 2006 (Updated)
- Microsoft Acquires Novell(’s Direction)
- Guest Post: Why Not Mono – Part I
- Guest Post: Why Not Mono – Part II
- Experiments in KDE and Mono
October 2008
- Microsoft Influence in Novell’s Management Increases, More .NET Focus
- BoycottNovell Goes Shopping for Mono Patent ‘Protection’
- Novell’s Linux Poison® (Mono) Reaches 2.0, Contains Extra Cyanide (WinForms)
- Marcel Gagné on Mono, OOXML, and More
- Novell Incorporated: Convergence of Windows and GNU/Linux Since 2006
- Mono Watch: Where Is It All Coming From?
- The Nomo GNU/Linux Distribution and Another Silver Lie
- Microsoft Pressures for WAMP While Novell Helps ‘Infect’ AMP ("“[It's] all written in .NET, just for patent ambush purposes and infection,” says one knowledgeable reader. Only Novell customers are said to be 'protected' and, according to this reader, “all the “free tools” that Microsoft releases are strangely written in .NET for infection purposes.”")
- Microsoft Does Not Reply to Request for Mono Patent Protection
- On Mixed Source, Mono, and Other Forms of ‘Piracy’
- Microsoft Makes New Friends in Open Source World — for Windows, .NET, Silverlight
- SUSE Linux to be Powered by More Microsoft .NET?
- Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference and Novell
- Quick Mention: When Mono Messes Up Your Server…
- Reader’s Proposal for Combating Free Software-hostile Patents
November 2008
- Request for Mono Licence from Microsoft: Ascending to Nicos Tsilas
- Monoment (sic) of Novell’s Demise
- Quick Mention: Removing Microsoft/Novell from Ubuntu 8.10
- Calling Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenMoko to Resolve Mono Problem, Not Ignore It
- Reader’s Post: The Windows Software Development Minefield, and Mono
- Microsoft Willing to Sell Us ‘Protection’ for Use of Mono
- Microsoft, With Novell’s Help, Locks GNU/Linux Users Out of Innovation
- Jose Explains Why Not Mono
- While the World is Asleep, Mono with Microsoft-patented WinForms Slips into Ubuntu 9.04
- Mono Tries to Enter KDE
- Mono Critique Goes a Long Way Back
December 2008
- Beware the Mono
- Mono Quote to Bear in Mind (“I saw that internally inside Microsoft many times when I was told to stay away from supporting Mono in public. They reserve the right to sue”)
- Novell Builds Bridges… for Microsoft to ‘Steal’ Open Source
- Microsoft Wants One Throat to Choke ("Microsoft’s plan is to group everything inside Novell and under Mono (.NET), then treating GNU/Linux users as though they are jailed in a pen (technical and legal vulnerability).")
- Why the OpenSUSE FAQ Misses the Point
- Got Mono? Buy Some Peace of Mind™ (SLED)
- OpenSUSE: Still Trying to Be Microsoft Windows ("The Mono effort has also led to a Novell effort called Moonlight which is an attempt to enable Microsoft’s Silverlight media framework on Linux.")
- Microsoft Tries to ‘Surrogate’ Free Software with Windows-only, Patent-encumbered, Microsoft-controlled ‘Open Source’
- Mono is Only for Novell, Says Microsoft Ally
- The Threat of Mono as Basis of Applications (or: “Why GIMP is Different”)
- Mono Fans Owe an Apology: The Evolution of Mono Continues
- Mono a Second-Class Citizen Even on GNU/Linux
- What Samba Can Teach Us About Mono
- Quick Mention: KDE and .NET
January 2009
- Novell’s Mono: Imitating a Failing Technology
- Quick Mention: Mono Goes Fighting Java on Android
- Microsoft: Use .NET to Fight GNU/Linux, Use Patents Against Clones (Mono)
- Microsoft SVP on GNU/Linux and .NET
- How Microsoft Really Feels About .NET in Linux/UNIX
- Why Microsoft Wants to Put .NET/Mono in Devices
- What Miguel & Novell Do to GNOME
- How Novell Leverages Microsoft .NET to Market Itself
- When Mono Helps Microsoft Windows and Excludes GNU/Linux
- Quote of the Day: Richard Stallman on Mono
February 2009
- How Novell Helps Microsoft Attack GNU/Linux (Except for SUSE)
- Miguel Goes to Microsoft
- Androids ‘Bricked’ by Microsoft Mono
- Novell Promotes ASP.NET, Demotes OpenSUSE
- New Examples of ‘Slackreporting’
- Novell’s Jaffe on Novell’s Linux Strategy: .NET, Mono, Moonlight, Nothing About OpenSUSE
- Quote of the Day: “Mono Simply Ratifies .Net”
- Novell Enables Microsoft Distributions
- Novell Tumbles, But Not the ‘Novellsoft’ Part of the Company
- Novell Spreads More .NET in Mac OS X, Windows, Leads to Patent Trouble
- Novell Pollutes GNU/Linux, Microsoft Almost Pollutes ODF
March 2009
- Novell Committed to Microsoft Technologies, But Not so Much to Free Desktop (RadeonHD)
- Intellectual Novell Property in GNU/Linux
- Novell Becomes Closer to Microsoft — Abolish Mono and Moonlight
- At Novell, Polluting GNU/Linux with Microsoft Technologies is “Taking Over the World”
- Bruce Perens Calls Novell a “Highly Paid (Microsoft) Mouthpiece” ("Backlash against Novell; Ubuntu is rumoured to be considering abolishment of Mono")
- Kodak Groks Mono After Large Investment from Bill Gates, Novell Props up Silverlight
- Novell Happy About KDE Bindings for Mono and .NET
- Novell and Microsoft Market Almost the Same Products Together
- Microsoft Novell Tag-Team ("With Novell’s hand in the code, Novell products like Mono continue treading towards KDE.")
- SLED 11 is About Microsoft .NET
- The Mono Trap
- TomTom Caves; Will Microsoft Start Charging for Mono Next?
- Novell Releases Poisonware Factory 2.0 (MonoDevelop)
April 2009
- Microsoft and Novell Still Grow Closer
- (Mo)NoDevelop is Liked by Microsoft and Novell, Not by the GNU/Linux Crowd
- Microsoft Uses Pseudo “Open Source” to Fight Against GNU/Linux and the GPL ("Here is a recent video where de Icaza expresses his feelings about Microsoft.")
- Microsoft Uses Novell, Likewise, and Ignorance to Market Its Products
- Did Tomboy Learn from TomTom? Project Forked, Moves Away from Microsoft ‘Standards’
- The Role of Mono and Moonlight Revisited
- Project of the Day: GNote ("The trailblazing route away from Mono seems clearer thanks to GNote")
- Novell is “Impressed” by Miguel de Icaza… Well, So is Microsoft
- “Desperately Seeking Patent Tax” (Microsoft, Novell, and Mono)
- Novell Partners Promote Silverlight, Zeitgeist at Risk of Mono(polists)
- Tomboy is Afraid of Gnote, Its Mono-free Sibling
- Announcement: Mono-Free Tomboy Replacement (Gnote) Releases Version 0.2.0
- From “Microsoft Religion” to “Mono Religion”
- Novell Quietly Releases SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension as a Product
- Parody: BN Announces Community Novell Review: Patents Cited in Future Mono-Targeted Litigations to be Placed on BN Defenders Wiki
- Microsoft-funded Media Player to Become Ubuntu’s Default?
- Gnote Supports 6 More Languages, Does Not Support C# ("For those who are looking to detoxify their GNU/Linux distribution which contains GNOME, Gnote 0.3.0 is finally out.")
May 2009
- Gnote Finds Its Way Into Debian and Ubuntu?
- Gnote is a Lot Faster and a Lot Lighter Than Tomboy
- The Path to Mono-free GNOME-based Distributions is Foreseeable
- Gnote Enters Fedora
- Subject: (PATCH) Add CONFIG_MONO_NO_CREATE WITH_MS_PATENTS option
- Novell Vice President Loves Linux Hater, Who Attacks KDE
- Red Hat: We Should Probably Look at Switching out Tomboy with Gnote in the Fedora 12 Panel Configuration
- New Version of Gnote Released, Already Earns New Users Who Boast Mono Relief
- MonoDevelop Moves to Windows, Gnote Comes to GNU/Linux (as Default)
- Ubuntu Makes Novell’s Mono a “Master Of The Universe” (MOTU)
- Who Covers Mono Again? Microsoft.
- GNU/Linux Bashers and Microsoft MVPs Masquerade as “Linux Users” ("A lot of Mono and Moonlight coverage is still coming from the Microsoft-faithful crowd")
- Canonical Hires Noveller, Job Probably Won’t Include Mono
- Gnote Enters Debian, UbuntuOne Has No Mono
- Gnote Enters Ubuntu GNU/Linux (Karmic) ("Gnote, a Mono-free replacement for Tomboy, has already entered Fedora and Debian. Now it is also in Ubuntu.")
- Mono Wants to be Everywhere
- Saving SELinux from Mono Before It’s Too Late?
- Licence to Use Microsoft Moonlight and Mono Not Possible?
- Ubuntu’s Mono Booster Calls it “Monobuntu”
- Gnote Explodes in Popularity
- Gnote’s Objection to Mono and Microsoft’s ‘Embrace’ of Java
- Reddit Accommodated by Mono Boosters, Including Novell Employees
- Gnote Can Save GNOME from Mono
- More on Novell’s Finances: SUSE and Mono Failures
June 2009
- Does Ubuntu Forums Threaten to Ban Opposition to Mono?
- Mono: An Infectious Disease — An Article by Chris Smart
- Red Hat Replaces Tomboy with Gnote, Removes Mono Dependency
- Easy-LTSP Dumps Mono/C#, Rewritten in Python Instead
- GNOME Zeitgeist Decides Not to Go with Mono
- Ubuntu Users Plead to Keep Novell’s Banshee Out (and Other Miscellaneous Mono News)
- “I Believe Gnote is Also Slated for Inclusion by Default in Debian and Ubuntu”
- Fedora Leaves Mono Out, OpenSUSE Has Second Thoughts, and So Should Ubuntu
- How Novell Harms GNU/Linux Programming
- Microsoft is Using Mono and MonoDevelop to Leverage Windows and .NET
- Ubuntu is Censoring Opposition to Mono by Default
- Why Mono (and Moonlight) is Microsoft’s Embrace
- Mono Critique Almost a Taboo in Ubuntu Forums, Ideas, Bugs, and Mailing Lists
- Novell Develops for Windows Development Tools
- Rally to Put More Mono in Ubuntu Backfires, Users Left Concerned by Mono
- Real-time Linux Hacker Bill Huey Called the Mono Plan “Misguided”
- In Fedora, Tomboy and Banshee Depend on Winforms ("Banshee brings Winforms with it after all (not part of ECMA reference)")
- SUSE Interoperability and Mono Good for Microsoft: Easier Migration to Windows
- Criticism of Mono Now “Disappearing”
- Signs of Mono Unrest, Legal Issues
- Case Study: The Harms of Mono
- Debian is Not Including Mono by Default, Yet
- New Push for Gnote in Ubuntu by Default ("Another step towards abolishment of Mono as by-default component")
- http://boycottnovell.com/2009/06/19/mono-poll-and-news/
- Whisper Campaigns Against Gnote ("Response to disinformation about Gnote, a substitute to the Mono-encumbered Tomboy")
- Please Don’t Replace the GIMP with F-Spot (Mono)
- Reader’s Article: Mono and (Anti)Trust
- Open/SUSE and .NET
- Bill Gates on C# as “Key Element in Preventing Commodization by Linux”
- Microsoft on “Embrace and Extend”, the “Windows API Franchise”
- Latest Lies and Denials from Mono Advocates, Microsoft
- Why free software shouldn’t depend on Mono or C# — by Richard M. Stallman
- Reader’s Article: Mono as a One-way Bridge (to Windows)
- Responses to Richard Stallman’s Verdict on Mono
- Microsoft and Novell Still Fight for .NET Inside GNU/Linux
- GNOME’s Evolution Proceeds as Planned?
- Mono Proponents Do Not Address the Real Questions
- More People Say “No” to Mono, Including the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC)
July 2009
- Who Promotes Mono? Microsoft and Novell
- Poll: 62% Don’t Trust Microsoft on Mono
- Microsoft Confirms Mono is Not Safe, Stallman Agrees
- Reader’s Article: Microsoft’s Empty “Community Promise” (Mono) is a Sham
- Mono Roundup: Still Dangerous, Still Not Acceptable
- Mono Roundup: Microsoft Following, Deception, and the Moonlight ‘Extend’ Phase
- Is Mono’s Latest Strategy to Vilify Richard Stallman?
- “I Am Not Afraid of…”
- Another Angle on Personal Attacks from Mono
- Mono Applications Get Integrated with Microsoft Moonlight
- Confirmed: Novell Puts Mono (and Moonlight) at Centre of the GNU/Linux Desktop
- What Nessus Teaches About Mono
- Free Software Foundation Discourages Dependence on Mono, Dismisses Microsoft Community Promise
- Video: Stallman Says C# Only for Running Existing Programs (Updated: Ogg)
- More on Mono, Microsoft, and Novell ("A batch of small updates on the Mono/Moonlight situation")
- Why Novell and Ubuntu Suppress Opposition of Mono
- New F-Spot/Banshee Ties Pose a Microsoft Patent Threat
- Why Mono Redefines Free Software
- Mono Roundup: Suppression of Speech, Extension, and Deception
- If C# is Declining, Do We Need Mono Anymore?
- Novell Still Serves Microsoft with Mono
- Time to Drop the Word “Zealot” from Software Debates? (on "Pro-mono Zealotry")
- Why Microsoft Hates Java and How Novell’s Mono Helps Microsoft Fight It
August 2009
- Microsoft .NET Tries to Piggyback OLPC, Novell Helps the Same Cause
- Monopoly and Monocrisy ("New example of Mono hypocrisy")
- More Novell, Microsoft, Software Patents, and Mono Insults
- Befriending the Sworn Enemy
- Novell Ignores Microsoft’s Community Promise Limitations
- Why Sqlite Sharp Can Harm GNU/Linux
- Mono Team Puts Microsoft’s GPL-incompatible Licence and Patents-encumbered Software Inside GNU/Linux
- Novell Fails with Moonlight
- Moonlight and Mono Lack Demand
- Trusting Mono While Microsoft Attacks GNU/Linux Left and Right
- More Monkey and MonkeyLight Business
- Both Developers and Users Are Not Interested in Mono
- Another Warning Sign for Mono Proponents: NTFS and FAT
September 2009
- How Novell is Monetising FUD ("Now they embrace and extend Linus’ own baby, Git, using C#/GitSharp.")
- Unrest in OpenSUSE Grows, Mono Faces Opposition Also
- Is Mono WISE? (WISE = Windows Interface Source Environment)
- More Anti-Red Hat Whitepapers from Novell, More Mono/.NET Convergence
- Miguel de Icaza Joins Microsoft
- gNewSense Gets Rid of Mono While Mono Gets Closer to Microsoft
- Miguel de Icaza “is Basically a Traitor to the Free Software Community,” Says Richard Stallman
- Alan Cox in 2002: “Microsoft Has Publicly Stated That it Has Patents on Critical Parts of .NET and Will Enforce Them”
- Novell Helps Microsoft Zune and CodePlex Foundation Helps Novell
- Richard Stallman is Not the Bad Guy
- With Friends Like These, Who Needs Microsoft?
- Mono and Moblin as the Microsoft-approved “Open Source Solution”
- Microsoft Might Support Intel’s Moblin to Make GNU/Linux More Microsoft Dependent
- Groklaw Groks Mono, Miguel de Icaza, Microsoft, and More
October 2009
- Now It’s Groklaw’s Turn (Groklaw on Mono)
- Microsoft Interjects Itself into Free Software Using Novell
- Novell VP Brushes Off Microsoft’s Attacks on GNU/Linux, Promotes .NET
- Stereotype of Copying the Competition
- Mono’s #1 Problem is Not Software Patents
- Jeremy Allison Recommends Passing Mono Software to Basket of Proprietary Software
- Simon Phipps on “Monomaniacs”, More Reactions to Jeremy Allison’s Mono Prognosis
- “Mono Mania” Carries on and Evolution Includes Mono
- FSFE Adds Weight to Call for Mono Resistance
- Mono, Open Core, and Other Bizarre Forms of Open Source
- Mono Programs Removed from gNewSense
- Banshee is Novell, Mono, and ‘Forbidden’ Microsoft Software Patents
- Novell Uses IDG to Promote Mono
- Massive New Migration to Free Software in French Authorities; Gendarmerie Should Delete Mono
- Mono and Fraud
- The Price of Mono
November 2009
- Gnote Would Fit Nicely in Ubuntu 10.04 (Default Install)
- Mono and GNOME 3.0
- Novell and Microsoft Expand Relationship to Boost Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Linux Patent Tax
- Novell’s Work Popular… in Microsoft Blogs
- At What Stage Can Novell be Called “Microsoft Subsidiary”? ("Novell’s latest moves clearly show a technical convergence with Microsoft, so why treat these companies separately?")
- Can GNOME 3.0 Avoid Mono Despite GNOME Foundation Director Being Novell Employee?
- Is the Mono Project Run Partly by Microsoft Now?
- OpenSUSE 11.2 is Open to Microsoft Lawsuits Because of Mono
- Microsoft Exposes .NET Patent Trap to More Potential Copyright Issues
- Moonlight and Mono Not GNU/Linux Projects Anymore
- Hypothesis: Mono Proponents Will Replace GIMP with Paint.NET
- Mono: Deaf to the Facts
- Telepathy a Plugin Away from Mono (Non-ECMA Parts)
- With gThumb and Gnote in Ubuntu 10.04, Default Install Would be Leaner, Mono Free
- Salivating Over Silverlight ("If Novell’s vice president is “droolingly” Microsoft’s, then how can Mono and Novell be trusted anymore?")
- The Case for a Mono-Free Ubuntu and Novell’s Case for a Mono Fee Ubuntu
- F-Spot (Mono) Can Still be Removed from Next Ubuntu
December 2009
- Less OpenSUSE, More Microsoft Software at Novell
- Mono Bullies ("Mono and Moonlight are projects that one cannot ever criticise safely")
- Gnote is Alive, New Release Available ("If Ubuntu is looking to save disk space, which it does, then it should remove Mono (and Tomboy), not the GIMP.")
- Avoid Mono to Put Back the *NIX in GNU/Linux
- Microsoft Gave Moonlight “Blessings” in 2007
- Moonlight and Hyper-V Still Novell-Only and SUSE-Only in Some Ways
- Accurate Coverage of Novell ("Moonlight 2 released; no Microsoft codecs unless you get it from Novell")
- Taking Mono Off the Menu
- Neon Challenges IBM’s GNU/Linux Mainframes, EU Challenges IE Bundling, and Microsoft Helps Push Mono and Moonlight Into GNU/Linux
- “The Moonlight/Mono World Does Not Work That Way Though.”
- The Lies About Moonlight Carry on, MSBBC to Block Free Software Users Again
- Microsoft’s Moonlight “Promise” Full of Holes
- Miguel de Icaza: “We Have Removed All of the GPL Code” (MonoDevelop)
- Reactions to Microsoft’s Novell Software Inside GNU/Linux
- gNewSense Abandons Ubuntu, Microsoft’s Mono Agenda Revisited
- DRI CEO: “The Biggest Risk Was That Microsoft Would Come Hell-Bent to Destroy Us… Not Necessarily by Competing” (and discussion about lessons for Mono/Novell)
January 2010
- Microsoft on GNU/Linux Clones of Microsoft: “We’d Have to Look to the Protection Offered Under Intellectual Property (sic) Law”
- Novell’s Christmas Presents for Microsoft
- Novell Repeats Mistakes of WordPerfect, This Time with Mono
- Locked Out of Mono Blogs, by Silverlight
- Miguel de Icaza Groomed by Microsoft with MVP Award
- Microsoft Betrays Another ‘Partner’, This Time MySQL (mention of Sqlite#)
- “Mixed Source” and “Half Pregnant” (Mono as Open Core)
- When Mono Gets Treated Similarly to Skype (Proprietary)
- With Mono Clearly on Microsoft’s Side, Another Call for Ubuntu to Move Mono to ‘Restricted’
- Bug #1 is Not “Market Share”
- New Opinions on Mono, Miguel de Icaza, and the “Windows Stratagem”
- Indian Activists Fight Back Against Microsoft Patents as Jeremy Allison Repeats Warning, Cites Mono as Patent Trap
- Humanity to Others’ Agenda (Analysis of some of Canonical’s recent moves, which give rise to Novell’s Mono and proprietary software)
- Novell Spreads Microsoft Inside GNU/Linux Whereas LINA Spreads GNU/Linux Inside Windows
- What the Yahoo! Deal Means for Ubuntu GNU/Linux (and Mono)
- Novell Promotes Apple, .NET
- On Novell, Ubuntu, Microsoft and Mono
- Novell and Freedom Are Incompatible ("Novell’s obsession with Microsoft (and even Apple) is highlighted using the latest evidence")
February 2010
- Microsoft’s Lawsuit Against Google and What It Teaches Us About Mono
- Sleeping with Mono - Assorted items about Mono and Moonlight
- The Microsoft Apologists and Boosters Really, Really Like Novell! ("A complete list of news articles about Moonlight 3.0 preview shows that its biggest fans are Microsoft fans")
- More Mono and Patent Poison from Novell (another Mono program from Novell)
- Mark Shuttleworth: “If Windows API Becomes the Default on Linux Then What is the Point of Linux?”
- Novell/Microsoft and the Funding of Pinta’s (Mono) Developer
- Novell More of a Reflection of Microsoft as Weeks Go By
- The Latest from Microsoft’s Ambassador to Linux (MVP Miguel de Icaza) and Other FSF-Hostile Folks
- What Apple Teaches Us About Mono and Moonlight
- The “Microsoft Everywhere” Vision of Novell
- Novell’s Mac-only Mono and Some Notes About Ubuntu
- Novell is Already Poisoning MeeGo With Microsoft Trojan Horses
- Despite Failure (Rejection by Users and Developers), Novell Carries on Spreading Mono and Moonlight
March 2010
- Ubuntu 10.04 Increases Mono Dependency
- Despite (or Because of) Microsoft's Patent Extortion, Novell Continues to Focus on Mono
- Moonlight Disappoints
- Ubuntu One Adds Mono Bindings
- Mono and Novell Influence Increases in the GNOME Foundation
- Novell Wants to Bring Microsoft, Moonlight, and Mono to Linux Phones (Android)
- Microsoft MVP de Icaza: Microsoft “Shot the .NET Ecosystem in the Foot” Because of Patent Threats
- Señor de Icaza Meets Other Microsoft MVPs
- Mono, the Monopolist’s Sidekick (Microsoft’s companions help the company either influence other companies or take over their agenda, Mono being the tool by which .NET gets injected into rivals)
- SD Times Removes Miguel de Icaza’s Admission That Mono Has Patent Problems and de Icaza Mocks Jeremy Allison
- If You Distrust Mono, Then You Are Called a “Microsoft Hater”, “Paranoid”, and “Conspiracy Theorist”
- The ‘Conspiracy’ of Mono
April 2010
- Ubuntu Removes Codec Patent Trap, But What About Mono?
- Mono Team Develops More Windows Software and Mocks Critics
- Novell Dominates Almost a Third of GNOME Foundation Board, Including the Director
- SchoolOS to Remove Mono, Apple ‘Blocks’ MonoTouch
- Red Hat Converts C# Code to Java While Apple Outright Rejects C#
- Apple Treats Mono Like It Treats Flash; GNU/Linux Should Too
- The GIMP is Fine, But Novell Staff Wants It Replaced by .NET
- The Future of Mono and MonoTouch is Uncertain
- Ubuntu Removes gThumb and Adds More Mono
- Canonical is Already Aware of the Problem With Mono
- Apple’s Latest Mischiefs, Ignores Mono’s Pleas
- Why Mono is Technically Inferior for Development and Why Microsoft Keeps Promoting It
- Docky is Mono
- Adobe Trash Player and Novell/Microsoft Mono
- Keeping Mono Out of Ubuntu 10.04 and Android; HTC Sued Again for Software Patents
May 2010
- Microsoft/Novell Faking “Open Source” and Pushing .NET Into Web Browsers
- Attempts to Push Mono Into Awn
- The Microsoft/Novell Mono Lobby
- By Pushing Mono Into Android, Novell Puts Microsoft Before Freedom
- Novell: The Copy of a Copy
- MeeGo is Hijacked by the Mono Team
June 2010
- Novell is Knowingly Seeding GNU/Linux, MeeGo and Android With Microsoft Patents
- Novell Turns MeeGo Into Another Ballnux
- Mono Cleanup (Ubuntu GNU/Linux follows the footsteps of projects like Fedora and sweeps Novell’s Mono aside)
- Microsoft Certified Partner Supports Mono
- SUSE MeeGo is About Mono and OpenSUSE Makes Microsoft-taxed GNU/Linux
- Manual for Removing Microsoft Trap From Ubuntu GNU/Linux (and Lessons of TomTom and SCO Cases)
July 2010
- Microsoft Co-Develops Mono With Novell
- Mono Demoted to “Proprietary Software” Status
- Richard Stallman Reiterates Threat of Mono, Wikipedia Censored by Mono Boosters
- How Novell’s Mono Mob Operates
August 2010
- Novell’s Promotion of Mono and Visual Studio Tools Comes Under Scrutiny
- Making Money for Increasing Microsoft Threat to GNU/Linux
- Novell/Microsoft Mono Poison (Banshee) Put in Ubuntu 10.10 NBE by Default
- Patent Threat Banshee Gets Hooks Into Ubuntu 10.10
- Groklaw Repeats Warning About Mono as a Patent Threat
- Novell Spreads .NET, Receives Backing From Microsoft Boosters
- Novell Connects Mono and Fog Computing (Microsoft ‘Patent Tax’ Included)
- Novell/Mono Could be Sued by Oracle; Taleo Puts Sun’s Former CEO and Former Novell Employee in the Board
- Microsoft’s ‘Android Tax’ Shows Why Mono Should be Treated as Threat
- Mono in GNOME Zeitgeist
- OMG!Mono! (Mono boosting comes from OMG!Ubuntu! (as usual), but the original source of Mono development is drying up)
- Mono Accessibility for Microsoft
- Mono Project Seems to be Dying (Development Virtually Halted)
September 2010
- “Q: Why is it written in Mono/C#? A: Because I hate freedom.”
- Embedding ‘Microsoft Tax’ in Linux, Using Mono
- Don’t Touch NoTouch (MonoTouch)
- Mono Outperformed by .NET Sometimes, Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 Dumps Novell’s Banshee
- Next Mono is Coming With Microsoft Code, Microsoft Licences
- Nokia, Zeitgeist, MeeGo/Maemo, and Moonlight/Mono Threat
- Mono Liars - Quick clarifications regarding a smear campaign that’s waged against Techrights by Mono proponents
October 2010
- The Redmond-Associated Press is Promoting Mono
- Mobbyists Love Mono
- Joint Microsoft/Novell Release of Mono, Partly With Microsoft Licences, Patents, and Even Copyrights
- Smeegol Linux Has a Mono Problem
- OpenSUSE’s Former and Existing Community Managers Promote Mono Patent Trap
- Mono is Not a GNU/Linux Project and It Keeps Feeding Those Who Bite the GNU/Linux Hand
- Mono as a Whole Appears to be a Patent Trap
- To Mono Leadership/Development Team, “A Mono Success Story of Biblical Proportions” Means No GNU/Linux Support
- “OMGUbuntu Makes a Dig at Mono?”
- How Mono Helps Microsoft DirectX, With Contribution From VMB_ware
- GNOME and Mono Meet Through Zeitgeist
- Allegation: Novell Has “Profit Motive for Pushing Mono Everywhere”
- The Source on Rejecting Mono, Which Earns a Room at FOSDEM 2011
- Canonical Probably to Put in Next Ubuntu GNU/Linux Mono Parts Which Microsoft Disallows Free of Lawsuits/Charge
November 2010
- Mono Advocacy is Deluded, Avoids the Facts and Personally Attacks Critics Instead
- Mono is for Microsoft and Microsoft F# Loves Miguel de Icaza
- Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza Does Not Know What Will Happen to Mono
- Bad Decision Made at Canonical Regarding Media Player
December 2010
- Canonical is Hiring Mono Developers, Losing COO
- Mono Under AttachMSFT Spreads Microsoft Languages, Opposition Bullied
- Mono Lie of the Week: AttachMSFT’s Banshee is Safe
- .NET is Microsoft’s Patent Poison Pill Inside Any GNU/Linux Distribution With Mono
- Wayne Borean: Mono Should Come With “Danger – Microsoft Inside” Label
January 2011
- Change Happens (Consensus Regarding Mono)
- Mono Boosters in Ubuntu Have Conflicts of Interest, LibreOffice Under Similar Threat
- OMG!Ubuntu! Likes Mono
- Linux Mint Founder Does Not Follow Ubuntu’s Banshee Travesty
- Mono in ‘Damage Control’
- Monofree Helps Remove and Block Mono, Just Like Mononono
- Richard Stallman: “The danger is that Microsoft is probably planning to force all free C# implementations underground some day using software patents”
- Adrian Malacoda on Apathy Towards Mono
- The “Mono Lobby” Explained by Neil Richards
- Keeping Unity Mono Free
- From UNIX Battles to .NET Battles
February 2011
- Banshee’s Developer Quits Novell
- Poisoning Mobile Linux With Microsoft Staff and Mono
- With Novell’s Intervention, MeeGo Now Poisoned by Mono
- Miguel de Icaza Helps Show He is an Enemy of GNU/Linux
- Ostracise Miguel de Icaza Like Stephen Elop Should Have Been Ostracised From Nokia
- Microsoft Bans Mono
- Simon Phipps: “Mentioning Mono in my article was an interesting experience. It was like mentioning Scientology…”
- One Last Sellout From Novell (MPEG-LA, Microsoft Patent Traps)
- Promoting OpenSUSE is Not the Same as Promoting Mono
March 2011
- Miguel de Icaza is at Microsoft, Attacking Ubuntu GNU/Linux
- Novell Rips Red Hat Off and Rips the Community Apart, Brings Microsoft and Patent Tax Into it
- Why Microsoft’s Guy Miguel de Icaza Pushes for C# at Apple, Which is Not Successful
